Philip José Farmer's first book length work.

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DANGER! THRILLS!  ADVENTURE!

Alan Green was not exactly a hero. In fact he
liked peace just as well as the next man. Not that he
was really afraid of that crazy, hot-blooded hound-
dog Alzo, or even of the hound's gorgeous owner, the
Duchess Zuni-who was also hot-blooded (to say
nothing of the Duke). After all, these things were
understood on this backward, violent planet, and a
man could manage, provided he was alert twenty-four
hours a day.

And as a matter of fact, Alan was only normally
apprehensive of his Junoesque, tempestuous (but
altogether lovable) wife Amra. Delightful, demand'
ing Anna-and her five uproarious kids. The trouble
was, he was tired. And homesick.

So when he heard of two other downed spacemen,
he hitched a ride with a piratical merchant-captain on
a windroller destined to carry him to the spaceship
and thence to the peaceful green hills of Earth. But
he had reckoned without the vagaries of the wind-
roller, pirates, the "traveling islands," the rascally
Captain, and various flora and fauna peculiar to this
planet-all of which, it now seemed, regarded Alan
with unnerving malevolence.

And worst of all, Amra was determined that he
should be a hero. Amra won.

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